A Time For Happy Thoughts

I had a post all planned out for today about how we can expect teams to try to attack the Eagles' defense this season.  Despite all the obsession attention we give to the offense, I still think the play of the defense is going to be the key to the season.  Not to steal too much from what I have on the issue, but when you're constantly dumping high-round picks and a big name free agent into a unit, you're hoping for something a little better than average.

But I realized this morning my heart wasn't in that post today.  It's the first day of full (minus one) training camp, the hitting starts tomorrow, and I'm not in the mood for critical thought. 

This is not a day for negatives. 

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Looking ahead, I think enough time has passed since the book came out that I can share some of the more interesting nuggets from the Football Outsiders' charting project. 

Preview:  Think the Eagles run/pass disparity washes out if you control for situations?  Think again.

So that's coming next week, along with the defensive thing listed above, a long list of reasons for optimism, and of course the obligatory obsession with the mental state of Shawn "Definitely Not Because Of Money" Andrews.

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Shaheer McBride is looking good for this competition, but Jason has a point about a potential sleeper.

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Finally, this is just extraordinary.  How one even notices that is beyond me.